Kubrick, a doctor’s son from the Bronx who got his start as a photographer for Look, was turning forty that year, and his rise in Hollywood had left him hungry to make extravagant films on his own terms.
The after-party at the Plaza was “a room full of drinks and men and tension,” according to Kubrick’s wife, Christiane. Clarke, Kubrick’s collaborator, was in tears at intermission. Kubrick nervously shuttled between his seat in the front row and the projection booth, where he tweaked the sound and the focus. A sixth of the New York première’s audience walked right out, including several executives from M-G-M. In the annals of audience restlessness, these evenings rival the opening night of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” in 1913, when Parisians in osprey and tails reportedly brandished their canes and pelted the dancers with objects. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone.įifty years ago this spring, Stanley Kubrick’s confounding sci-fi masterpiece, “ 2001: A Space Odyssey,” had its premières across the country. And Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths, must once again confront Dave Bowman-or whatever Bowman has become-a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.Audio: Listen to this story. Clarke revisits the most famous future ever imagined, as two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two enthralled a huge audience worldwide. It is even more unusual that an author is able to complement so well-received an invention with an equally successful sequel. Clarke accomplished with 2001: A Space Odyssey. Only rarely does a novelist weave a tapestry so compelling that it captures the imagination of the entire world.
Clarke's 2061: Odyssey Three is truly a masterful elaboration on one man's epic vision of the universe.
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